Standoff comes to peaceful end in Des Plaines says Police Chief Billy Kushner (Retired Chicago Police Officer)
Des Plaines Police Chief William Kushner said officers responded to a home on Rose Avenue, just east of Second Avenue, around 11 a.m. Thursday for a call of a possibly suicidal person with a handgun. The man, whom Kushner said was believed to be heavily intoxicated, refused to leave the house, and SWAT team officers spent the day negotiating with the man.
Police discharged powdered pepper spray in the home in attempt to get the man to come out, Kushner said. Family members attempted to speak to the man by phone but received only truncated responses, Kushner said. Shortly before 6 p.m., Des Plaines police, assisted by members of the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System, broke a window of the single-family home and tossed several gas grenades inside. The man exited the building soon after, and he was transported to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge for a medical evaluation.
No gunfire was exchanged during the incident, Kushner said.
"The only things discharged were from (police), and they were either non-lethal or less-than-lethal emissions," he said.
Kushner said police are in the process of securing a warrant to search the home and a safe inside it. The man's family members told officers that he had a safe in the house containing multiple firearms.
Kushner said a similar incident occurred last fall at the same house in the 1000 block of Rose Avenue and with the same individual. Police recovered two firearms from the home following that incident, and the man's firearms identification card was revoked by police, he said. Kushner said police plan to charge the man with unlawful use of a weapon as a result of the latest incident.
A family member in possession of a FOID was able to recover the firearms, and Kushner said officers learned that the weapons were subsequently returned to the Rose Avenue man. He said it's currently unknown whether that family member will face any criminal charges.
Officers were called Wednesday to the Rose Avenue home, where the man lives alone, for a well-being check, Kushner said. He said the man was argumentative with police but appeared to be fine. Officers were again dispatched to the home around 11 a.m. Thursday after family members reported receiving texts from the man saying he intended to "end it all." A family member also received a text message containing a photo of the man with a gun pointed to his head, Kushner said.
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